Graduate Fpga Design Engineer

This company, involved in the design and manufacture of advanced electronics products and systems are seeking a number of Graduate Hardware Design Engineers to be involved in High-speed FPGA design using VHDL (Xilinx and/or Altera).

• Implementation of high-speed signal processing designs in FPGA
• Signal processing architecture development
• Formulating hardware and development timescale estimates

You will be degree qualified and will be able to demonstrate comprehensive knowledge and in some of the following areas:

• High-speed FPGA design using VHDL (Xilinx and/or Altera)
• VHDL simulation (ModelSim)
• VHDL synthesis for FPGA (any of Mentor, Synplicity, XST, Quartus, etc)
• Hardware/board design
• Embedded processors (NIOS/NIOS-II, MicroBlaze/PicoBlaze, Xilinx PowerPC)

A working knowledge of one or more of the following areas would be an advantage:

• Matlab
• Signal processing algorithms and architectures (FFT, filterbanks, multirate filtering, image processing).
• Physical layer communications (modulation/demodulation, equalisation, coding/decoding, satcoms, mobile)
• Defence systems (radar, sonar, SIGINT, EW).

The position requires very close communication with the commercial and the engineering teams; consequently, the candidate must have the knowledge and the interpersonal skills to be able to fit into a dedicated group of people.